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Rankings · European Union

Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to the European Union or the country over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Sep 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.

Commission presidents

Governments

  • Real GDP during each government's tenureEurostat (namq_10_gdp), chain-linked volumes, seasonally and calendar adjusted
  • Real GDP per person during each government's tenureEurostat (namq_10_pc), chain-linked volumes per capita, unadjusted, summed over the trailing four quarters
  • Average pay per employee during each government's tenureEurostat national accounts: wages and salaries (namq_10_a10, D11) over employees (namq_10_a10_e), trailing four quarters, adjusted for inflation with the HICP (prc_hicp_minr)
  • Unemployment rate during each government's tenureEurostat (une_rt_m), seasonally adjusted
  • Employment rate, 20–64 during each government's tenureEurostat (lfsi_emp_q), seasonally adjusted
  • Inflation (HICP) during each government's tenureEurostat (prc_hicp_minr), all items
  • House price index during each government's tenureEurostat (prc_hpi_q)
  • Government debt during each government's tenureEurostat (gov_10q_ggdebt), general government consolidated gross debt
  • Happiness during each government's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' averages
  • Government effectiveness during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Regulatory quality during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Rule of law during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Control of corruption during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Corruption perceptions index during each government's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Voice and accountability during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Electoral democracy index during each government's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Liberal democracy index during each government's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Freedom of expression during each government's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores
  • Political stability during each government's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores

Mayors

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